Saturday, October 01, 2022

Voting in a War Zone

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: UKRAINE


Voting in a War Zone

 

Imagine your home invaded by armed thugs

Miraculously you fight them back

But they hold the living room

With guns drawn they insist on a vote

To decide who will inhabit this space

Vote for them and life goes on

Until they deny you passage through

Your own living room

Vote against them and they open fire

 

This is what Russia did in Crimea

This in what they have done in Luhansk,

Kherson, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia

Voting in a war zone is not democracy

It is the opposite of democracy

It is itself a crime against humanity

It makes a mockery of democracy

Just as the Russian Federation does

With its mock elections

 

Voting with a gun to your head is not voting

Voting with a gun to your head is survival

 

Why would a dictator conduct such mockery?

It reveals his weakness and foreshadows

The depravity to come

 

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